Quotes by : James Weldon Johnson

O black and unknown bards of long ago How came your lips to touch the sacred fire? How in your darkness....

I thought of Paris as a beauty spot on the face of the earth, and of London as a big freckle.

It’s no disgrace to be black, but it’s often very inconvenient.

American musicians, instead of investigating ragtime, attempt to ignore it, or dismiss it with a contemptuous....

The battle was first waged over the right of the Negro to be classed as a human being with a soul; later,....

In the life of everyone there is a limited number of experiences which are not written upon the memory,....

My luck at the gambling table was varied; sometimes I was fifty to a hundred dollars ahead, and at other....

The fact is, nothing great or enduring, especially in music, has ever sprung full-fledged and unprecedented....

New York City is the most fatally fascinating thing in America. She sits like a great witch at the gate....

Amsterdam was a great surprise to me. I had always thought of Venice as the city of canals it had never....